Word: equilibrium
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Such views may be far too optimistic. In the past, national conflicts of interest have more often led to war than to equilibrium. Nonetheless, Asian nations outside the Indochina war zone are quietly but quickly rejiggering their old diplomatic patterns for a happier, more peaceful tomorrow. Items...
...grim calvary." Desperate, he decides to spend some time with his sister in Limoges. Neither he nor the reader is much surprised to find that the most fascinating figure in local society, Nathalie Silvener, falls deeply in love with him. Her tenderness and loyalty gradually restore Gilles' equilibrium. When he goes back to Paris, she joins him. But Nathalie has a daily beauty in her life that makes Gilles feel increasingly ugly. Beside her, Gilles decides, he will never look good, and so he subtly sets out to remove her from his life...
...self-imposed exile is seen as characteristic of a frontier society in which isolation appears to be the rule. Sara Brownell's lighting and Bob McCoy's piano accompaniment (while the latter seems too often intrusive in the rowdier episodes) are suggestive of the lonely, moral equilibrium that Huck can find only on a raft in mid-river. Fletcher World's Jim, although characterized with an understated dignity and authority that Twain himself hardly could have imagined, delivers a couple of especially effective soliloquys. These are the moments when all the magical elements of the story-teller's art coalesce...
...temporary expedient is a plan, endorsed by the RUS, which would establish a more equitable 2:1 male-female ratio in the five Houses now currently coed. Such a plan would provide women with ratios they feel more acceptable, while preventing the current situation from falsely exhibiting the presumed equilibrium that the CHUL plan would suggest...
...both sides, there has been a drawing back from anarchy and violence. As much as anything, Americans seem now to be seeking public limits and a private equilibrium, to be answering David Riesman's complaint: "Why are we so evangelical? Why do we not have a happier sense of the ordinary, of dailiness?" Americans have the vanity of thinking that the U.S. must be either the best country or the worst country. There is something reassuring and necessary in the acknowledgment that it is neither...